Posts in Category ‘English Studies acquisitions’

In 2009 Ashgate published the first in their series Ashgate studies in publishing history: manuscript, print and digital, and after a period of gestation two more volumes were produced in 2012, followed by one in … Read more

Aside from 1979’s very balanced Whitehouse, and her own stream of autobiographies, Mary Whitehouse has been only scantily served by biographers and critics, despite her undeniable cultural prevalence. It is therefore gratifying to add to … Read more

Great research libraries quietly preserve literary curiosities that others have overlooked or rejected, and not infrequently find that fashion and regard amongst readers and publishers return to them. One example is Louis MacNeice’s almost forgotten … Read more

Marie Stopes is synonymous with the campaign for birth control, and indeed many must know the name without any clear sense of the woman who bore it. On the occasions when her contribution is analyzed, … Read more

Outside of Historic Collections, the shelves of Senate House Library tend to be visually unappealing except in their sheer expanse, presenting unbroken rows of serviceable cloth bindings. A striking exception is this boldly decorated edition … Read more

Identifying trends in academic research, and publishing, is an important tool for the librarian seeking to build a genuinely useful collection for the researchers of today and the future. Having noticed my colleague’s post on travel … Read more

The acquisitions process for Senate House Library involves reviewing a huge quantity of new publications. In 1903, the great library pioneer Paul Otlet bemoaned the quantity of titles printed each year, describing it as the … Read more